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Autonomous sweat extraction and analysis applied to cystic fibrosis and glucose monitoring using a fully integrated wearable platform
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Significance: The inherent inaccessibility of sweat in sedentary individuals in large volume (≥10 µL) for on-demand and in situ analysis has limited our ability to capitalize on this noninvasive and rich source of information. Through devising an electrochemically enhanced, programmable, and miniaturized iontophoresis interface, integrated in a wearable sensing platform, we demonstrated a method for periodic sweat extraction and in situ analysis. The system can be programmed to induce sweat with various secretion profiles, which in combination with the in situ analysis capability allow us to gain real-time insight into the sweat-secretion and gland physiology. To demonstrate the clinical value of our platform, human subject studies were performed in the context of the cystic fibrosis diagnosis and preliminary investigation of the blood/sweat glucose correlation.
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The paper presents a fully integrated wearable platform that uses an electrochemically enhanced iontophoresis interface to extract sweat on demand and analyze Na⁺, Cl⁻, and glucose in situ. It demonstrates elevated sweat electrolytes in cystic fibrosis patients and a preliminary blood/sweat glucose correlation after oral glucose intake.
Key findings
- In on-body testing, average sweat sodium and chloride levels at 25 min were 26.7 and 21.2 mM for six healthy subjects versus 82.3 and 95.7 mM for three CF patients, respectively; CF patients also showed lower sweat sodium than chloride, opposite to healthy subjects.
- For glucose, seven healthy subjects before and after 30 g oral glucose showed similar sweat and blood glucose patterns, with increases in both sweat and blood in six out of seven fasting subjects.
- The iontophoresis platform achieved sweat secretion rates above 100 nL/min/cm²; 10% acetylcholine produced a high short-lived rate of 354 nL/min/cm², while 10% methacholine gave rapid onset and sustained high secretion and was used for subsequent on-body experiments.
- Sensor characterizations showed near-Nernstian Na⁺ and Cl⁻ sensitivities of 63.2 and 55.1 mV per decade, a glucose sensitivity of 2.1 nA/μM, and biosensor sensitivity variations of <5% over 2 wk.
Methods
- The wearable system used a flexible PET electrode array with iontophoresis and sensing electrodes, agonist-loaded hydrogels, and a flexible printed circuit board built around an ATmega328P microcontroller with Bluetooth, programmable current delivery, and signal-conditioning circuits.
- Human subject studies included six healthy volunteers and three CF patients for sweat electrolyte testing, and seven healthy subjects for fasting and post-30 g oral glucose trials; on-body work was IRB-approved at UC Berkeley and Stanford.
- Sensor performance was characterized in 10–160 mM NaCl and 0–100 μM glucose solutions, and sweat-rate profiles were characterized using three cholinergic agonist hydrogels at two concentrations with a commercial Q-sweat sensor.
Limitations
- The paper states that the glucose work is preliminary, that the metabolic correlation between sweat and blood glucose has not been well studied, and that future work should integrate temperature, pH, and sweat-rate sensors to calibrate or normalize glucose measurements.
- The paper also states that future efforts should include a wider panel of biomarkers and peripheral electrochemical/physical sensors for large-scale clinical and physiological investigations.
- Evident from the text: the human studies are small (six healthy/three CF; seven glucose subjects), and no formal statistical comparisons or full correlation analyses are reported.
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“This interface can be programmed to induce sweat periodically with various secretion profiles.”
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“Here, we devised an electrochemically enhanced iontophoresis interface which can extract sufficient sweat volume for robust analysis without causing discomfort in patients.”
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“With our platform, we detected the elevated sweat electrolyte content of cystic fibrosis patients compared with that of healthy control subjects.”
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“In particular, acetylcholine hydrogel presented a high sweat-rate response [354 nL/min/cm 2 for 10% (wt/vol) acetylcholine] with a short-lived effect.”
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“By modulating the duration of the applied iontophoresis as well as the concentration of the agonist agent, we were able to tune the active sweat-secretion window from a few minutes (Fig. 3B, acetylcholine 1%, iontophoresis current: 1 mA for 10 s) to tens of minutes (Fig. 3C, acetylcholine 10%, iontophoresis current: 1 mA for 5 min).”
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“Through integration of sensing electrodes on the same substrate as that of the iontophoresis electrodes, the induced sweat can be analyzed on-site immediately.”
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“Fig. 5 illustrates that the sweat and blood glucose levels of seven healthy subjects before and after glucose intake (30 g oral glucose) follow a similar pattern.”
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“Both ion-selective sensors show a near-Nernstian behavior with sensitivities of 63.2 and 55.1 mV per decade of concentration for Na + and Cl -sensors, respectively.”
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“This system implements a wirelessly programmable iontophoresis capability to induce sweat with different excretion rate profiles and at periodic time intervals.”
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“Three typical Cl -sensors show nearly identical absolute potentials in 10-80 mM NaCl solutions with a variation of <1% in sensitivity.”
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“Accordingly, we integrated this capability to demonstrate a fully integrated and autonomous platform that can stimulate sweat secretion and measure analytes of interest in the sweat collected (e.g., glucose, Na + , and Cl -) in situ and in real time (Fig. 1).”
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“It can be clearly observed that both Na + and Cl -levels for the healthy subjects fall below 20 mM while the patient has higher sweat Na + and Cl -levels (>60 mM).”
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“The programmability of the current source circuit allows for inducing different iontophoresis current profiles, which in turn allows for sweat stimulation with controlled intensity and duration of sweat rate.”
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“As displayed in Fig. 4C, the average sodium and chloride levels (based on the sensor readings at 25 min) for healthy subjects are 26.7 and 21.2 mM, respectively, while the average sodium and chloride levels (based on the sensor readings at 25 min) for CF patient subjects are 82.3 and 95.7 mM, respectively.”
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“The circuit delivers a current proportional to the output voltage of the microcontroller's DAC port, and this current is independent of load sizes ranging from 5 to 20 kΩ (the typical skin impedance in our context is ∼10 kΩ).”
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“Furthermore, as shown in Fig. 3A, pilocarpine and methacholinebased hydrogels provide long duration of secretion beyond the 60-min characterization window, where about half of the secretion period was spent at about the peak rate.”
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“This platform extracts sweat (at a high secretion rate) on demand or periodically and performs sweat analysis in situ.”
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“The mobile application has a user-friendly interface for programming the mode of operation as well as displaying and sharing the iontophoresis and sweat analysis data through email, short message service, and cloud servers (Fig. S4).”
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“without causing skin damage or discomfort in the subjects.”
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“As a result, it can be used for a wide range of applications in personalized medicine such as in-home continuous patient monitoring in response to potentially novel CF modulating drugs and enabling further clinical investigations including diabetes and prediabetes monitoring in a practical and noninvasive modality.”
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“Iontophoresis is currently a widely used method to stimulate local sweat secretion at a selected site (21).”
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“Our solution opens the possibility for a broad range of noninvasive diagnostic and general population health monitoring applications.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Sweat is inaccessible in sedentary individuals in large volume (at least 10 μL) for on-demand and in situ analysis, limiting broad population monitoring.
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“A sweat chloride level of ≥60 mM is indicative of a high likelihood of CF, whereas in subjects with sweat chloride <30 mM the disease is unlikely (21).”
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“This integrated platform can be used both as a diagnostic and clinical investigation tool.”
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“All subjects gave written, informed consent before participation in the study.”
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“The on-body evaluation of the wearable platform was performed in compliance with the protocols that were approved by the Institutional Review Board at University of California, Berkeley (2015-05-7578) and the Institutional Review Board at Stanford University (no.31310).”
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“It is also known that the Cl --based sweat test and genetic analysis are not always sufficient for some CF patients with rare mutations whereas the ratio of the sweat sodium and chloride levels can aid the CF diagnosis (27).”
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“We recently demonstrated a fully integrated wearable sensing system for real-time monitoring of multiple analytes in human perspiration during physical exercise which allows accurate measurement of sweat analytes through signal processing and calibration (16).”
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“The system can be programmed to induce sweat with various secretion profiles, which in combination with the in situ analysis capability allow us to gain real-time insight into the sweat-secretion and gland physiology.”
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“This interface can be programmed to induce sweat with various secretion profiles for real-time analysis, a capability which can be exploited to advance our knowledge of the sweat gland physiology and the secretion process.”
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“The sweat induction circuit consists of a programmable current source for iontophoresis current delivery and a protection circuit that sets an upper limit on the iontophoresis current as a safety mechanism to avoid overheating and burning the skin.”
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“Additionally, incorporation of simultaneous in situ analysis functionality inherently allowed for significant reduction of the sweat sample degradation, evaporation, or contamination.”
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Sweat is inaccessible in sedentary individuals in large volume (at least 10 μL) for on-demand and in situ analysis, limiting broad population monitoring.
“The inherent inaccessibility of sweat in sedentary individuals in large volume (≥10 μL) for on-demand and in situ analysis has limited our ability to capitalize on this noninvasive and rich source of information.”
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The conventional iontophoresis procedure involves separate stimulation, collection, and analysis steps, requiring extensive manual sample handling and failing to provide real-time insight into the secretion process.
“The conventional procedure involves stimulation, collection, and analysis all in separate steps, which not only requires extensive manual sample handling steps, but also fails to provide real-time insight into the secretion process.”
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The metabolic correlation between sweat glucose and blood glucose has not been well studied.
“Although there is literature reporting that sweat glucose level is related with blood glucose level (26), their metabolic correlation has not been well studied.”
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The challenge remains in devising an iontophoresis interface that can extract sufficient sweat for robust sensing without electrode corrosion and burning or discomfort in subjects.
“The challenge remains in devising an iontophoresis interface that can extract sufficient amount of sweat for robust sensing, without electrode corrosion and burning/causing discomfort in subjects.”
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Elevated sweat sodium and chloride ion content is a diagnostic marker for cystic fibrosis.
“To illustrate the value of our solution as a diagnostic tool, we used the platform to detect the elevated sweat sodium and chloride ions content in the CF patients.”
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“Preliminary or small-scale correlation studies have shown promising applications for other analytes such as metabolites and certain neuroimmune biomarkers present in sweat (3, 27–29, 36), including a recent work that shows how exercise sweat glucose of three healthy subjects roughly tracks their blood glucose, making a preliminary case for semiquantitative glucose prediction (29).”
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“Sweat behaviors of only a few analytes, including ethanol and chloride, have been extensively investigated and related to blood concentrations or health status (6, 8, 27, 35).”
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“They are unable to draw low volumes of resting sweat rapidly into the device, limiting real-time assessment.”
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“Sweat pH could potentially reflect acid–base disorders, chloride levels are relevant to testing for cystic fibrosis and potentially for hydration status and electrolyte stores, and levodopa testing through sweat could be used toward precision medicine for Parkinson’s patients14,27,28.”
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“All sensors show high sensitivity within the physiological range, with linear calibration curves shown in Supplementary Fig. 9 as well as reproducibility, stability, and bending tests shown in Supplementary Fig. 10 and Supplementary Fig. 1114,27,28.”
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“This device was recently tested for cystic fibrosis diagnosis and preliminary investigation of the blood/sweat glucose correlation [161].”
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“While understanding the composition of exercise sweat is important for athletic and physiology applications, chemically induced sweat is more useful for medical diagnostics in sedentary conditions (27).”
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“For this reason, most wearable sweat sensors have focused on exercise, thermal, or chemically stimulated sweat produced at rates of 10’s or 100’s of nL min−1 cm−2 or higher10–23.”
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“Sweat is considered an ideal biofluid for detecting biomolecules in wearable Point of Use devices because it is much easier to collect for testing than other biofluids, such as blood, which require invasive methods [128].”
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“In such circumstances, iontophoresis, whereby sweat glands are stimulated through delivery of an agonist using a low electrical current, is an useful method to obtain sufficient sweat 60,61 .”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Emaminejad, S., Gao, W., Wu, E., Davies, Z. A., Yin Yin Nyein, H., Challa, S., Ryan, S. P., Fahad, H. M., Chen, K., Shahpar, Z., Talebi, S., Milla, C., Javey, A., & Davis, R. W.
- Affiliations
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720;
- Stanford University (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2017-04-17
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- 18
- Pages
- 4625-4630
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC5422810
- OpenAlex
- W2607347870
- Semantic Scholar
- 33ec820767aad6915dd5361387dc8f8191c9a9f2
- Cited by
- 839
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 71 · 2025: 92 · 2024: 107 · 2023: 106 · 2022: 99 · 2021: 113 · 2020: 97 · 2019: 96 · 2018: 49 · 2017: 8
- FWCI
- 30.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (HG000205)
- National Science Foundation (NASCENT)
- U.S. Department of Energy (DE-AC02-05CH11231)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Analytical Chemistry › Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Analytical Chemistry › Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
- Keywords
- sweat analysis, iontophoresis, wearable biosensors, cystic fibrosis, blood glucose monitoring, sweat electrolytes, non-invasive diagnosis, continuous health monitoring
- MeSH terms
- Wearable Electronic Devices, Cystic Fibrosis, Glucose, Humans, Iontophoresis, Monitoring, Physiologic, Sweat
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